Plastics Europe

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The PlasticsEurope Eco-profiles database provides Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) datasets, Life Cycle Assessments (LCA), and Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for high-volume bulk polymers, widely used engineering plastics, and standard plastics conversion processes of the European plastics industry.

Eco-profiles represent European industry average production, compiled from confidential data collection across participating member companies. They are widely acknowledged among life cycle practitioners worldwide as representative datasets and are included in various commercial LCA databases as well as the publicly available Global LCA Data Access network (GLAD). Industry averages are used rather than company-specific values to provide the most robust representation of polymer production systems, given the large contribution of upstream effects and the distribution of input materials across the European pipeline network. The methodology follows version 3.1 of the PlasticsEurope Eco-profile Methodology Document, and datasets are subject to independent third-party review.